THE
DAY OF MEN DRINK BEER AND DON'T WEAR A SHIRT AND DO MAN STUFF
Thor gave his
name to the Old English
day Þunresdæg, meaning the
day of Þunor, known in Modern English as Thursday. Þunor is also the source of the modern word thunder.
"Thor's
Day" is Þórsdagr in Old Norse, Doresdak ðorestak in Northern Sami , Tuoresdag in Swedish- and Southern Sami ,Hósdagur in Faroese, except for Suðuroy, where it's called Tórsdagur, Thursday in English, Donnerstag in German (meaning "Thunder's
Day"), Donderdag in Dutch (meaning Thunder
day), Torstai in Finnish, and Torsdag in Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian.
The
day was considered such an important day of the week that as late as the seventh century Saint Eligius reproached his congregation in Flanders for continuing their native practice of recognizing Thursday as a holy day after their Christianization.